This is the full report in which ECOWA called Israel an apartheid state, expanding on the executive summary which was previously posted here. It was basically censored by the murderous Zionist state ("Israel") and the murderous empire (US). It has been posted some other places but not on Internet Archive yet. Enjoy! Have your mind blown.

Excerpt from report:

"The authors reject the accusation of anti-Semitism [over whether Israel is an apartheid state] in the strongest terms. First, the question of whether the State of Israel is constituted as an apartheid regime springs from the same body of international human rights law and principles that rejects anti-Semitism: that is, the prohibition of racial discrimination...The authors of this report believe that evidence for suspecting that a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people meets such a demanding criterion. Given the protracted suffering of the Palestinian people, it would be irresponsible not to present the evidence and legal arguments regarding whether Israel has established an apartheid regime that oppresses the Palestinian people as a whole...Israel is thus bound by its obligations to end a crime of apartheid if authoritative findings determine that its practices and policies constitute such a criminal regime...This report assumes that the term “apartheid” has come to have universal application in international law and is accordingly not confined to the South African case...Finally, identifying apartheid as a regime clarifies one controversy: that ending
such a regime would constitute destruction of the State itself...However, a State does not cease to exist as a result of regime change...Social racism doubtless plays a vital role in apartheid regimes, by providing popular support for designing and preserving the system...For the purposes of human rights law, a finding of racial discrimination is based less on how groups are labelled than how they are treated...the claim to Palestine as the exclusive homeland of the Jewish people rests
on an expressly racial conception of both groups...In the 1948 war, however, the Zionist movement took over territory far beyond what had been assigned to the Jewish State under resolution 181(II) and, by so doing, rendered moot its labyrinthine provisions, including acquiescence by the internationally recognized representatives of the Palestinian people...Palestinians remaining in Israel, who had not fled or been expelled in the 1948 war, became citizens of Israel, but Israel administered them under emergency laws and denied them civil rights, such as the franchise, until 1966...the United Nations commonly refers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the singular as the “occupied Palestinian territory”, treating both as geographic fragments of “Palestine” as established under the League of Nations Mandate...Israel is politically constructed as the State of the Jewish people...The mission of preserving Israel as a Jewish State has inspired or even compelled Israel to pursue several general racial policies...The first general policy of Israel has been one of demographic engineering, in order to establish and maintain an overwhelming Jewish majority in Israel...Israel reinforces its race-based immigration policy with measures designed to
prevent Palestinian citizens of Israel from challenging the doctrine and laws that purport to establish Israel as a Jewish State...Israel has designed its domestic governance in such a way as to ensure that the State upholds and promotes Jewish nationalism...the State’s essentially racist character...Israel is designed to be a racial regime...Different methods of administration are used to control Palestinian populations depending on where they live...Israel maintains an apartheid regime by administering Palestinians under different bodies of law...Israeli constitutional law therefore...makes resistance to oppression illegal...Palestinian parties...are legally prohibited from challenging the racial regime itself...Israel pursues efforts to weaken the Palestinians politically and contain their demographic weight...The roughly 4.6 million Palestinians who live in the occupied Palestinian territory (2.7 million in the West Bank and 1.9 million in the Gaza Strip) are governed not by Israeli civil law, but by military law, codified as orders issued by the commander of the territories and administered by the...IDF...and other designated arms of the occupying power...racial-nationalist privileges are embedded in the legal and doctrinal foundations of the State...This report establishes, on the basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence, that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid...the extreme gravity of the charge requires prompt action...Civil society institutions and individuals also have a moral duty to use the instruments at their disposal to raise awareness of this ongoing criminal enterprise, and to exert pressure on Israel to dismantle apartheid structures...The competent bodies of the United Nations should consider seeking an advisory opinion from the ICJ as to whether the means used by Israel to maintain control over the Palestinian people amount to the crime of apartheid and, if so, what steps should be taken to end that situation promptly...Efforts should be made to broaden support for boycott, divestment and sanctions initiatives among civil society actors...the “country” in which Palestinians are being deprived of rights could be the Palestine that was never allowed to form, and arguably should form."

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